EU Financial Management

I do not know whether the hon. Gentleman is in the mainstream of his party on the issues that we are considering. The Tory party is undergoing change, and I am therefore unsure whether he is in the mainstream. Of course he is right to say that such issues must always be put in context—unless one is deliberately setting out to prove an argument that portrays the EU as a negative and corrupt institution. Some people want to present the EU in that light because they believe that the country should leave the EU. That is a legitimate point of view, but it would be wrong to portray the budgetary position out of context, in a way that misleads public opinion in an unfortunate direction.